A native diocese is born

Notes: "It was a historic day for the Anglican Church of Canada as it celebrated the birth on June 4 [2014] of the first indigenous diocese and the installation of its first bishop in Kingfisher Lake in northern Ontario. The Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh's installation service for Bishop Lydia Mamakwa took place in a school gymnasium that had been transformed for the occasion with red and white banners, garlands, a profusion of flowers and a teepee around the altar. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada offered the homily. Archbishop David Ashdown, metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Rupert's Land, formally seated Mamakwa as bishop and blessed the episcopal chair. National Indigenous [Anglican] Bishop Mark MacDonald participated and offered a reflection. The service was in English and Oji-Cree". The service was held on June 4, on what would have been the 93rd birthday of Archdeacon William Winter "Mamakwa's uncle and spiritual adviser, who devoted himself to the dream of creating a self-determining indigenous church within the Anglican Church of Canada".

Subjects: Anglican Church of Canada. Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh; Anglican Church of Canada - Bishops - Installation; Mamakwa, Lydia, 1957-; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada; Hiltz, Fred (Frederick James), 1953-; Ashdown, David (David Norman), 1950-2021; MacDonald, Mark L. (Mark Lawrence), 1954-; Winter, William, 1921-2011